The Rolling Stones – Rolling Stones (VG/VG) – LP, ZA 1965

Rolling Stones is an LP by The Rolling Stones from 1965 released on the Decca label.

About this album

No. 2 is a fierce early statement from The Rolling Stones, capturing the band still refining the blues-R&B edge that made them distinct in 1965. Built around hard-driving reinterpretations and a handful of era-defining favourites, it shows the group translating American rhythm and blues into something tougher, leaner and unmistakably British. The album sits in the crucial run before their songwriting fully took hold, when the Stones were establishing the chemistry, attack and swagger that would drive their later breakthrough. For listeners tracing the band’s first great phase, it remains one of the most revealing documents of their rapid rise.